Lost City: Fitzgerald's New York

by Lauraleigh O'Meara

Overview

F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains in our time terra incognita, talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under-examined, indeed misunderstood and misrepresented, aspect of Fitzgerald's writing. The author shows that Fitzgerald's geography amounts to more than the Plaza Hotel and a wasteland. His writing depicts a variety of districts and neighborhoods. His is not the New York of the Roaring Twenties. Locating Fitzgerald's

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415867016
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	Studies in Major Literary Authors
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Manhattan of the Moment Chapter Two: Symbols of New York Chapter Three: A Day in the History of the City Chapter Four: Scenes from a Carnival by the Sea Chapter Five: A Picture of New York Life Chapter Six: Good Family, Old Money, Elite Society Chapter Seven: Saying Goodbye to the Road Not Taken Afterword: Beginnings, Not Endings Select Bibliography Index